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BOTANY. 
FRANKENIACEiE. 
Frankenia grandifolia, Cham. & Schlect. in Linncea 1, p. 35; Torr. & Gray, FI. I, p. 168. 
Corte Madera; April 10. 
POLYGALACEiE. 
Polygala cucullata, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 229. Hill-sides, Napa valley; April 27. We 
have seen no other Polygala from California, nor from any other part of the Pacific coast, and 
we strongly suspect that P. Nutkana, Mo$. Sesse. (if really from the northwest coast) and P. 
Californica, Nutt., are not distinct. The leaves are variable in breadth. In some of Fremont’s 
specimens, collected on the Sacramento, they are acute at the base, and the apex is scarcely 
blunt. The little appendage which takes the place of this crest at the summit of the keel is 
sometimes rostrate, and either straight or curved. Although there are no flowers or radical 
sarments in Dr. Bigelow’s specimens, there are vestiges of them, and it is probable that in the 
early state of the plant it usually produces such flowers. 
Polygala Lindheimeri, Gray, PI. Lindli. 2, p. 150. On the Llano Estacado; September. A 
form with mostly linear leaves. 
KRAMERIACEiE. 
Krameria lanceolata, Torr. in Am. Lyc., New York, 2, p. 168. Sandy prairies on the 
Canadian; August. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Vicia exigua, Nutt, in Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 272 ; var. ? Californica. River banks, Be¬ 
nicia, April 24. We have not seen the Californian variety of the plant noticed by Mr. Nuttall. 
The specimens collected by Dr. Bigelow seem to be quite as near Y. exigua, and perhaps the 
two species are not distinct. The former has been found in Alabama by Mr. Buckley, and in 
Florida by Dr. Chapman. All the specimens of Dr. Bigelow have single-flowered peduncles, 
which are of not half the length of the leaves. They are usually 6 leaflets, which are about an 
inch long and two lines wide, glabrous and emarginate, with a mucro, or acute and entire. 
The stipules are minute, and narrowly semi-sagittate. The pod is fully an inch long, sabre¬ 
shaped, and 5-7-seeded. 
Vicia gigantea, Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 1 , p. 157 ; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 270. Mountains 
near Oakland ; April 4 ; Punta de los Reyes, April 18. This agrees well with our Oregon 
specimens from Dr. Scouler and Mr. Nuttall, except that the lower teeth of the calyx are not 
so long. It also occurs in Coulter’s Californian collection. 
Vicia Oregana, Nutt, in Torr. & Gray, FI. 1. c. V. truncata, Nutt. 1. c. Mountains, near 
Oakland, April 4 ; hill-sides, Benicia, April 24. We find Nuttall’s two species to run into 
each other. 
Lathyrus vestitus, Nutt, in Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 276. Var. ? multiflorus: foliolis ovato- 
oblongis, pedunculis folio multo longioribus 20-25-floris, dentibus inferioribus calycis superior- 
ibus triplo-longioribus. Hills, Tomales bay, April 19 ; Corte Madera, April 10. About one 
foot high, clothed with a short soft pubescence. Leaflets 6 pairs, nearly three-fourths of an 
inch long, cuspidate. Peduncles 2-3 times longer than the leaves. Flowers nearly as large as 
in L. palustris. Lower teeth of the calyx linear-lanceolate, three times longer than the upper 
triangular ones. Stipules lanceolate, semi-sagittate, entire. 
Lathyrus venosus, Muhl. in Willd. Sp. 3, p. 1092? Torr. &Gray, FI. 1, p. 274, (the var. y.;) 
Benth. PI. Hartio., No. 1705. L. decaphyllus, Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 1, p. 159; non Pursh. 
Grass valley, May 19. A stout plant, with a winged stem. Leaflets 6 pairs, an inch and a 
